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Pythagoras. Pythagoras of Samos[a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) [b] was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, the West in ...
Hide the Pain Harold. Hide the Pain Harold is an Internet meme based on a series of stock photos of András István Arató[1] (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈiʃtvaːn ˈɒrɒtoː]; born 11 July 1945), a Hungarian retired electrical engineer [2] and model. In 2011, he became the subject of the meme due to his overall facial expression ...
Pythagoras, the son of Mnesarchus, practised inquiry beyond all other men and selecting of these writings made for himself a wisdom or made a wisdom of his own: a polymathy, an imposture. [6] Two other surviving fragments of ancient sources on Pythagoras are by Ion of Chios and Empedocles. Both were born in the 490s, after Pythagoras' death.
Meno proposes that virtue is the desire for good things and the power to get them. Socrates points out that this raises a second problem—many people do not recognize evil. [13] The discussion then turns to the question of accounting for the fact that so many people are mistaken about good and evil and take one for the other.
Mathematicism. Mathematicism is 'the effort to employ the formal structure and rigorous method of mathematics as a model for the conduct of philosophy', [1] or the epistemological view that reality is fundamentally mathematical. [2] The term has been applied to a number of philosophers, including Pythagoras [3] and René Descartes [4] although ...
e. Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. [1] This argument posits that individuals essentially engage in a life-defining gamble regarding the belief in the existence of God. Pascal contends that a rational person ...
Hippasus, engraving by Girolamo Olgiati, 1580. Hippasus of Metapontum (/ ˈhɪpəsəs /; Greek: Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος, Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC) [1] was a Greek philosopher and early follower of Pythagoras. [2][3] Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the ...
The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras And Other Pythagorean Fragments. Theosophical Publishing House. Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. (2007). Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and his Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7409-5; Kahn, Charles H. (2001). Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A ...